The Balkan Chronicle

Before the war broke out in the former Yugoslavia, Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was a lively and important center of film production. Although directors from Sarajevo had always depended on technical equipment from studios in Belgrade and Zagreb, they had made their own distinctive contribution to the national--that was Yugoslavian--film production, especially in documentaries and fiction filmmaking. Animation was never a strong point of the Bosnian cinema. One of the reasons was that the production was already established in studios in other Republics of Yugoslavia: first in Zagreb (Croatia) and, later on, in Belgrade (Serbia), then Skopje( Macedonia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia).